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backvelds

backvelds is the plural of backveld.

Meaning of backveld

Noun

backveld (plural backvelds)

  1. (Africa, Southern) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.
    • And how was she to know that one may live in London, or New York, a village in Yorkshire, or a dorp in the backveld […] but one behaves inevitably, inexorably, exactly like everyone else.1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 232

Questions about backvelds

What is backvelds the plural of?
Backvelds is the plural of backveld.

Words near backvelds in the dictionary

  1. Backus-Naur forms
  2. Backuses
  3. backveld
  4. backvelder
  5. backvelders
  6. backvelds
  7. backwall
  8. backwalls
  9. backward
  10. backward and forward
  11. backward compatibilities

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